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An Insider’s View of the Making of Fusion Fall
Monday, March 9
3:00 – 4:30
Skiles 002
Join us for a roundtable discussion with the designers of the FusionFall MMOG as they discuss how this complex game,
merging a variety of diverse cartoon properties was developed by a multi-national team.
Chris Waldron, Game Producer
Sam Lewis, Lead Game Designer
Mario Piedra, Creative Director
Matthew [...]

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The Entertainment Software Association’s charitable arm, the ESA Foundation, is offering 30 scholarships to women and minorities who aspire to get a job in the games industry.
The amount of scholarships is double the 15 that were available in each of the past two years. The awards are worth $90K in total, and for the first [...]

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Innovative game architecture combines fast-action character creation and personal interaction on a massive scale, eliminating geographic and server constraints —
ATLANTA – (February 24, 2009) – Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, announced today its Performance IP™ network and Managed Server hosting services are [...]

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It’s an amazing and intimate conference in which the industry’s brightest stars come to Savannah for two days of talks, dinners and a ridiculous amount of southern hospitality.
Registration is only $50 for the general public for two days.
Speakers are still being announced (as I get their bios and profiles in), but the line up [...]

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Celia Pearce will be featured in an interview on the online radio program DigIn! with Limor Schafman, on Monday, February 2 at 4pm EST. The subject will be current and future trends in virtual worlds and multiplayer gaming.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Limor-Schafman
The interview will also be archived for later podcasting.
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Create A LittleBigPlanet Level On Live Internet TV Show “Friday Night Gaming” This Friday!
ROSWELL, Georgia – January 21, 2009 – Are you in the Metro Atlanta area and want to show off your LittleBigPlanet design skills to the world? If you come to the Computer ArenA in Roswell, Georgia this Friday night (January 23rd) [...]

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CARTOON NETWORK UNIVERSE™: FUSIONFALL™ Available to Play Starting Today
Cartoon Network New Media along with its development partner, Grigon Entertainment, announced today the launch of its AAA, browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall.
“We are excited to launch FusionFall, our most ambitious game to date from Cartoon Network,” said Paul Condolora, Senior Vice [...]

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ATLANTA, Georgia – January 8, 2009 – Hi-Rez Studios™ announced today that players can now apply to participate in closed beta for Global Agenda™, an action massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) scheduled for release in late 2009. The closed beta is anticipated to begin in the second quarter of ‘09 and players can apply [...]

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LIVE INTERNET TV BROADCAST FROM COMPUTER ARENA EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT
Friday Night Gaming is a new project from podcaster Bobby Blackwolf which will be a place where gamers can gather to discuss and play each other both online and in person. Utilizing techniques perfected in over three and a half years doing Live Internet Radio, audiences [...]

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ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Entertainment Arts Research Inc. an Atlanta-based video game publisher and interactive entertainment virtual world developer founded in 2000 by Professor Joseph Saulter, today announced a multimillion dollar series A funding. EAR is in pre production on an original third person action thriller IP called Fire Wire District 22 driven by artistic creativity and advanced [...]

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